As people might know, from my portfolio frontpage, I’m working fulltime as a freelance website designer in Sheffield. I’ll be giving some updates for anyone wishing to get started as a freelance web designer in the near future and hopefully it will help you in some way.
The first moment I decided to try and make it freelancing, I started work on my new website. It needed to show my work, show who I am and most importantly show potentiel clients what I can do for them. It’s fairly obvious that without a portfolio or website showcasing your recent work,but a problem I had was working for a single company with one website for the last 3 years. My recent portfolio was virtually none existent, even though I had some great experience working on projects in that time, I couldn’t take any credit for the work as I never worked alone on them.
The way I got round the lack of portgolio work, was to simply make it up. I’d pick a theme or website type and just design it. All designers have ideas for how certain themes can be designed so just pick one and do it.
At the moment I’m 2 weeks into my new freelance career, and my portoflio is my biggest asset, as I’ve not started getting any work locally yet so the only way people can find out if I’m actually a person, is by visiting my website.
If you’re thinking of going freelance, get your website done. Most designers find it difficult to work on their own website because we stare at it too much. But if you find a good style, just stick with it no matter what and get it finished, it will be the most important part of your early freelance career.
With anhosting, you don’t have to worry about html coding anymore. Whether it is mobile phone software or an affiliate program, you don’t have to be bothered even remotely. The program is self sufficient. Even lunarpages is following this suit with xml instead.
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